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hey there in today's video we are going to be running through the seven steps to writing a winning grant application this is how we teach this in our course grant writing from start to funded at learngrantwriting.org but i'm just going to give you that real basic uh outline of it so you can really get your arms around great writing and see that it's it's it's science but it's not rocket science okay let's get into it [Music] all right so step one is preparing for success let's run through what that looks like you're going to want to organize your files so this is how we suggest organizing it when you if you take grant writing from start to funded we actually have this all on a google drive that you can make a copy of so you'll have access to everything but this is how we organize every single project so it's really repeatable and very clear like where everything is which gets more important when you start doing more than one project and you're working with a team of people so i'm not going to really run through the specifics on this right now but just wanted to let you know that this is sort of what it looks like okay so you're going to get started by reading the funding guidelines and usually these are going to include okay eligibility narrative requirements what they want for attachments deadlines how to submit etc sometimes foundations in particular don't really have funding guidelines or the information might only be on their website so just be aware that funding guidelines come in lots of shapes and sizes if you're looking at a federal grant it can be 140 pages right so they really really do do vary but you're going to want to spend some time going through that with a fine tooth comb to make sure you've got everything the sun is shining and i'm kind of blinding but blinded but you know we're good let's roll with it okay so you're going to also prepare a narrative skeleton and a skeleton is an outline for your narrative so instead of starting with the blank document you're going to go into there and you're going to start typing in the narrative questions and the scoring criteria if that's available because you want to make sure that you have like one document where everything is that you start plugging in your answers and start putting bullet points down for ideas on how to respond do not start writing your narrative at this stage just prepare the outline okay so that's the kind of quick and dirty version of how to prepare for success but now we're going to move on to step two which is rocking your kickoff so after you've read your funding guidelines you've prepared your narrative skeleton it's time time to develop a grant schedule and host a fabulous kickoff so here is the...